When pharaohs died, they would be buried in decorated tombs. Egyptians believed that pharaohs were gods, and that Horus – the god of the sky (who had a falcon’s head) – gave them power. Kings and queens in Egypt were called pharaohs. We have learned about how mummies were made, and what Egyptians believed about the afterlife, thanks to discoveries by archaeologists. Pyramids also included shafts that pointed upwards, so the pharaoh’s ‘ba’ (soul) could escape. 
Inside pyramids, there were different chambers that held things the king would need in the afterlife. The Egyptians used their knowledge of maths to build pyramids that were shaped well and positioned properly. Pyramids took a long time to build, so work would start on them while the pharaoh was still alive. 
The pyramids at Giza are the biggest that we can see today, but we have found around 80 pyramids from Ancient Egypt. Some were buried in elaborate tombs called pyramids, though some were buried in underground tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The pharaohs – the kings and queens of Egypt – were thought to be gods themselves. During the mummification process, the internal organs were put into containers called canopic jars. It was important that someone was able to reach the afterlife and the god Osiris, so mummification was taken very seriously. 
The Egyptians believed that there were many gods who oversaw different parts of life on earth and life after death.When people died, they were mummified – this process took a long time, but it prepared them for the afterlife.The process of mummifying and burying a body was done to help the person travel successfully through the underworld, which would get them to the afterlife and the god Osiris, who was king of the underworld. When the pharaohs (kings and queens) of Egypt died, they were mummified and buried in large stone pyramids. When people in Ancient Egypt died, they were mummified – this was a long process of preserving the body, and designing a coffin with painted pictures and writing.
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